University of Sussex

A new large-scale longitudinal study carried out by University of Sussex psychologists has found a clear link between episodes of depression and anxiety experienced by adults in their twenties, thirties and forties, with a decrease in memory function by the time they are in their fifties.

Sussex researchers join international project to help 11 million Thai people. Researchers from the University of Sussex are joining an international effort to help protect Thailand's vulnerable coastal communities from storms, floods and coastal erosion.

Researchers have discovered that exposing people with phobias to their fear - for examples, spiders for those who have arachnophobia - at the exact time their heart beat, led to the phobia reducing in severity.

Sue Angulatta has been appointed as the University's new Director of Research and Enterprise. Sue has worked in the higher education sector for 15 years and will join Sussex in January from the University of Surrey, where she has been the Director for Research and Innovation Services since 2013.

Overseas investment to the UK may be some 19 per cent lower because of the vote to leave the EU, according to the new report by the researchers at the UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO) at the University of Sussex.

Leaving the European Union could make rewilding an attractive option for landowners across the UK, according to a team of experts led by the University of Sussex. Brexit would see an end to the existing EU-funded Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which rewards intense management and farming of land.